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Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E. : living on the edge /
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Following the failure of the Bar-Kokhba revolt in the second century, the majority of the Jewish population of Palestine migrated northward away from Jerusalem to join the communities of Jews in Galilee and the Golan Heights. Although rabbinic sources indicate that from the second century onward the demographic center of Jewish Palestine was in Galilee, archaeological evidence of Jewish communities is found in the southern part of the country as well. In The Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E. , Steve Werlin considers ten synagogues uncovered in southern Palestine. Through an in-depth analysis of the art, architecture, epigraphy, and stratigraphy, the author demonstrates how monumental, religious structures provide critical insight into the lives of those who were strangers among Christians and Muslims in their ancestral homeland.
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Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012. :
1 online resource (xxviii, 361 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004298408 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE) /
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Building on the important work by Hemelrijk, this volume endeavours to bring ancient women out of the domestic sphere and to examine their presence and activities in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims. Covering the period 500 BCE to 650 CE and ranging across the Mediterranean and beyond, it fruitfully employs a great variety of source types and thematic approaches to argue that women in the ancient world were active in many parts of the public domain, including the civic, the religious and at times even the political and military spheres.
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1 online resource :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004533295
9789004534513
Living water : images, symbols, and settings of early Christian baptism /
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This general survey of early Christian baptismal iconography and architecture integrates visual depictions and physical settings of baptism with textual evidence for its practice and purpose. An opening overview of pictorial art (paintings, relief sculpture, mosaics, and ivories) prompts questions about components of the actual ritual which are treated in the literary sources. The study's second half considers selected baptismal structures, examining the symbolism, purpose, and possible meaning of their spatial design and decorative programs. In most instances the synthesis of documentary and material evidence is enriching and complementary. However, even when physical and textual data diverge, their discontinuity demonstrates the variability of ritual performance and the perennial distinction between ideal and actual practice..
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1 online resource (xxiv, 305 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-297) and index. :
9789004189089 :
0920-623X ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The architecture of ancient Israel : from the prehistoric to the Persian periods : in memory of Immanuel (Munya) Dunayevsky /
: Translation of : Adrikhalut be-Erets-Yiśraʾel bi-yeme ḳedem. : xiv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9652210137
Architectural styles of ancient Alexandria : elements of architectural decoration from Polish excavations at Kom el-Dikka, 1960-1993 /
: Translation of : Style architektoniczne starożytnej Aleksandrii. : 369 pages, 154, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plan ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9788392231950
Ancient Egyptian construction and architecture /
: "An unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1930 by Oxford University Press : Humphrey Milford, London, under the title Ancient Egyptian masonry : the building craft"-- T.p. verso : xviii, 242 pages, [66] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-232) and index. : 0486264858
The encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian architecture /
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"First published in German in 1994 as Lexicon [sic] der ägyptischen Baukunst by Artemis & Winkler Verlag."--title page verso.
Translation of : Lexicon der ägyptischen Baukunst. :
274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. :
Bibliography : pages [271]-274. :
9774246489